Archives for March 2000

Lord love a duck:

March 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Is your computer posessed by a Demon? “While the Computer Age has ushered in many advances, it has also opened yet another door through which Lucifer and his minions can enter and corrupt men’s souls,” said the Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine.”

Digital Camera News:

March 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I bought the cheapest decent one I could find today, and actually got a pretty good deal. I got the Kodak DC215, and the store gave me a small deal on the floor model AND threw in a 20Mb flash card instead of the standard 4Mb. At a quality good enough for the web, that’s about 200 pics at a time.

Vanessa’s

March 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Eleven Seconds looks really great now! Well, it always did in fact.

Ihnatko:

March 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

How about turning the Desktop into a 3D, six-sided cube? [via Swallowing Tacks yesterday]. I want one of those things!

Special report on dead trees and plastic:

March 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Wired reports today on publishers who are beginning to put whole books online. Finally. It’s taking a while, but these folks should get it eventually. What magazine or newspaper doesn’t put most if not all of its content online at the moment? Magazine sales are at an all time high. Newspaper ad revenues are rising. I have experience with this – a book I worked on was entirely published on the net before we compiled it, designed it, and put it on paper to sell in stores through St. Martin’s Press.

New Media don’t replace or even really threaten old media – they complement it. Maybe the RIAA and the big music companies will figure this out. Where they see a threat, they should see an opportunity.

But the RIAA is like OPEC just before the end of the oil shocks in the 70s. Eventually someone will defect like some giant game theory test case. They’ll figure out that McLuhan was right – the medium is the message… and the medium of a CD publisher isn’t little plastic disks, it’s the music itself, and the idea of the music. And that day they’ll license like crazy to value-added resellers and make money from the brand, not some bulky clear plastic thing in a jewel case.

They’ll be the only recognizable survivors.